Practice Areas:

Corporate/Business

• Company Formation and Business Planning
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Taxation

Estate Planning and Administration

• Estate Planning
• Probate

Charitable Foundations and Organizations

Education:

• Northwestern University, J.D. (1975)
• The College of Wooster with honors (1971)
  • Member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Alpha Theta

Notable Experience:

• Past President and member of the Executive Committee of the Wayne County Bar Association.
• Former member of the Board of Governors of the Corporate Counsel Section of the Ohio State Bar Association from 1989-1994.
• Served as Vice Chairman of the Taxation Committee of the General Practice Section of the American Bar Association in 1981.
• Life Fellow of the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation.

Bar and Court Admissions/Memberships:

• Wayne County Bar Association
• Ohio State Bar Association
• American Bar Association

Corporate and Civic Involvement:

Present

• President of the Board of Trustees of the Wayne County Community Foundation
• Trustee of The College of Wooster
• Trustee and Secretary, Beaverson Foundation

Past

• Trustee of the Wooster/Wayne Legal Aid Society
• Wayne Center for the Arts
• Junior Achievement of Wayne County
• Wooster YMCA
• Trustee of private foundations
• Past Member Board of Directors of several local companies including a national bank whose shares traded on the NASDAQ